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No. 291,342. 'Patented Jan. 1, 1884.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HAYES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CROSS-CLIPFOR METALLIC SKYLIGHTS AND GLAZED ROOFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,342, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed March E6, 1883. (N model.)

' dent of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Gross- Clip for Metallic Skylights and Glazed Roofs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide for the buttjointing of the glass'panes down the slope of the skylight or glazed roof, so that the glasses (when the span is so great as to require them to be used in section) will lie on the same plane down the slope and securely rest upon ledges or rabbets, also 011 a uniform plane, all the edges of the panes thus resting on a secure bed and the lapping of glass panes wholly avoided.

The invention consists of a cross-clip having a rabbet to receive the lower edge of the upper sheet of glass, and a groove to receive the upper edge of the lower sheet of glass,and a gutter or gutters arranged so as to be wholly,

" or nearly so, beneath the ledges or rabbet and groove aforesaid, to collect drip of leakage or condensation and offer no obstruction tolight. The gutters of the clip communicate with gutters of the sloping rafters or bars of the skylight or roof, so as to discharge therein, and the water collected in the gutters of the clip escape thereby tosome proper outlet at the base of the skylight or roof. This clip is constructed of one or more pieces of sheet metal folded or bent up into the shape requisite.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in perspective a portion of a glazed roof or skylight, illustrating the position of clips.

one gutter only being formed therein.

Fig. 2 shows a section, giving the slope discharge therein, and the clip is made of 0 folded or bent sheet metal, so as to have the rabbet or ledge a, groove b, covering-flange c, and gutter or gutters d, the gutter or gutters d being thrown completely under the ledge andgroove, so as to offer the least possible obstruction to light, which is a great desideratuln in many instances, especially photographic skylights.

An internal strengthening or core plate may be used wherever necessary for strength. One is shown at e, Fig. 3.

WVhat .I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The sheet-n1etal cross-clip O, for abutting panes of glass in skylight and glazed roofs, composed of one or more pieces, so bent that a rabbet or ledge, a, is formed to support the lower edge of the upper sheet of glass, and a groove, b, to receive and support the upper edge of the lower sheet of glass, and beneath the said ledge a and groove b the metal bent backward from the upper edge of the ledge a, and then curved to constitute a gutter, d, located elitirely beneath the glass-supporting parts of the clip 0, so as not to obstruct light entering through the glass panes, essentially as shown and described.

GEORGE HAYES. 

